Jurassic Park 3 Movie Review.

Title: Jurassic Park 3.Gene: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror.Starring: Sam Neill as Gr. Alan Grant, Alessandro Nivola as Billy, William H. Macy as Paul Kirby, Tea Leoni as Amanda Kirby and Trevor Morgan as Eric Kirby.Plot: A wealthy couple approach a paleontologist with a large check to accompany them on a tour of Isla Sorna, in need of the money Dr. Alan Grant accepts and takes along his paleontologist buddy young Billy who, when not digging up dinosaurs or making plastic replicas of raptor bones, spends his time paragliding. Dr. Grant gets his first sense of danger when the group is circling over the island and when he regains consciousness the small plane has landed on the island and Amanda Kirby is a little ways off calling for someone named Eric with a blow-horn, Dr. Grant tells her to stop while the three hired guns suddenly start shooting at something in the trees. Turning coward two of the hired guns rush back to the plane and prepare to take off with everyone on board save the third man who runs out into the middle of the runway and before the pilots can stop or do anything a large carnivorous dinosaur runs across the the plane's path and crunches the man while the plane prematurely lifts off then crashes among the trees. The stunned passengers then try to figure out what to do next but before a decision the dinosaur comes back, rips the nose off the plane and eats one of the pilots before rolling and kicking the beat up plane wreckage around in a vain attempt at getting the other five people.
When the dinosaur is distracted they sprint away through the forest and meet a T-Rex who fights the other dinosaur and loses. The dinosaur being thoroughly distracted the humans get away and return to the wreckage of their plane where they gear up. It is then revealed that Paul and Amanda {who are divorced} are there on the island looking for their lost twelve year old son Eric who disappeared near it two months ago. Dr. Grant also figures out that they're not wealthy which means that the check they gave him is useless but this is a small matter as they follow his experienced advice and start heading for the coast. Along the way they come across a parachute all tangled up in the branches of a tree and from the camcorder learn that Eric is alive, but the body of the step-father is found still in the harness of the parachute when Billy and Dr. Grant go to take it down. Amanda freaks out and tells Paul that she's afraid for their son, when the other three catch up with Paul and Amanda they find a raptor nest and Dr. Grant instantly leads them away but not before Billy has the chance to steal two of the eggs.
Still making their way toward the coast they stop at the ruined building in the center of the island and break into a vending machine to get some food before making their way to the hatchery. Here Amanda says, "Is this how you make dinosaurs?" Dr. Grant replies, "No, this is how you play God." Another exciting scene follows in the form of a small herd of raptors who attack the humans and kill the last of the hired guns, while Billy and the Kirby couple escape into the trees Dr. Grant is rescued by Eric and during the overnight stay in the latter's hide-out the two become good friends. The five survivors are reunited in the morning while both parties are making their way toward the coast and the dinosaur from the beginning of the movie chases them to the river where they unknowingly enter a giant birdcage for nasty pterodactyls who viciously attack the humans, one succeeding in carrying Eric to it's nest where he fends off half a dozen hungry baby birds while the others frantically try to escape the bird chasing them and rescue him at the same time. Just a few minutes before all this had happened Billy had told Dr. Grant that he'd stolen the eggs and Dr. Grant had said that he was "as bad as the people who built this place." With one dramatic exchange of meaningful glances Grant instantly knows what Billy is gonna do just seconds before he leaps out of the metal structure and pulls the strings on his borrowed parachute, gliding off among the flying prehistoric creatures to go rescue Eric.
Yelling a short command to Eric to jump Billy succeeds in his wild rescue attempt but moments later his parachute gets a rip in it and he tells Eric to jump just minutes before he slams into the high canyon walls while Eric and the others all at once end up in the water. Eric scrambles out onto the bank and his mother whisks him away to safety at the same moment that Grant and Paul rush knee-deep back into the river to rescue Billy who is by now in the river and being attacked by the birds. He yells at them to stay away and is carried by the current downriver with half a dozen birds hovering over pecking at him. Swimming under the wall of the birdcage the humans escape and float peacefully down the river in a boat they found, at nightfall they hear the cell phone ringing and leap to the riverbank to dig through steaming piles of dinosaur dung before finding the phone, they wash their gross hands and continue on down the river. Grant calls his good friend Ellie just as they are attacked for the last time by the same naughty dinosaur and he barely has time to tell her to send help before they're all plunged into the river. Escaping first Paul distracts the dinosaur and then Grant shoots a flair which lights the spilled gas on fire, effectively saving their lives and scaring off the beast.
When they're almost at the coast the raptors come back and Amanda gives the eggs back, Dr. Grant finds Billy's replica of the raptor bone he made at the beginning of the movie and blows through it, calling for help in raptor language. With relief they finely reach the beach and discover that Ellie sent a small army to help them out, mounting the helicopter Dr. Grant is directed toward the back of it and sees a beat-up Billy lying strapped down with bandages all over him, being men they keep their words few and Billy hands Grant his Indiana-Jones style hat which he'd rescued. The thoroughly worn out group then head home.Likes/Dislikes: While the survivors are back at the wrecked plane gearing up Amanda and Paul change into clothes more suited to hiking through the jungle and Amanda is shown in her bra while Paul is shown shirtless but nothing else inappropriate is shown or hinted at during the rest of the movie and there's no foul language that I recall. There is, however, a good amount of blood shown and it's suppose to be a horror because of the music {or so my mother says} but my siblings {ages fifteen to ten} and I didn't seem to notice this as we were too busy laughing and enjoying a good adventure movie.Rating: PG-13 and I'm inclined to agree with it though if the reader can't stand the sight of blood or having robotic dinosaurs chase the people around then I recommend you not watch this but other than that it's a very good movie.Date Report Written: January 22, 2010.